Christopher Abrams

I'm of two minds.

I know how to make very nice things, and I want to learn to do even more.  But I also see the drive toward craft and skill as a desire to control our environment. While I harbor this desire, I well know its limitations and disappointments.

As a result, I've recognized nature's potential to interfere, confounding--and enriching--our most earnest efforts.  In an effort to incorporate, rather than resist, this capacity, I create work that reconciles high craft with chance and natural phenomena.  I believe that their accord might reveal something about creation, authorship, and a sense of self relative to a broader existence.

Infernal Combustion 1, 2008.  Cast aluminum.

Divining Burst, 2008.  Latex-skinned urethane foam.